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There was no association between use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and increased disease severity or mortality among patients with COVID-19 requiring hospitalization, a U.K. cohort study found.
After adjusting for confounders, in-hospital mortality for patients who were taking NSAIDs prior to admission was no different from those who were not (matched OR 0.95, 95% CI 0.84-1.07), reported Ewan Harrison, PhD, of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, and colleagues.
Moreover, NSAID use was not associated with critical care admission (matched OR 1.01, 95% CI 0.87-1.17), or the need for invasive (matched OR 0.96, 95% CI 0.80-1.17) or non-invasive ventilation (matched OR 1.12, 95% CI 0.96-1.32), the authors wrote in